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MG-A(G.769.052
3 Aug 1769:1241 (1247)
London, May 25. At the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of
the Clergy at St. Paul's, the collection was only 794 L.
which was 111 L. less than last year, the reason was partly
owing to the Ridotto all Fresco, being the night before at
Vauxhall Gardens, there being above seven thousand persons
there, and admitted at half a guinea each, so that instead
of a rehearsal of music at St. Paul's for that charity, it
will be better to have yearly a Ridotto all Fresco, at
Vauxhall Gardens: Above 500 of the persons who went there,
were left dancing 'til six o'clock in the morning, there
were many fancy dresses, and above 500 were admitted by 10
the evening before; that night not a hackney coach was to be
seen in London.
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